is Miss Di Tappa and discovered when exchanging a kiss with the winner of the Giro dItalia, a Rome-to-Naples bicycle race. The resulting picture of the moment is published in newspapers all over Europe and leads to her being offered a job as a model.

56

director Pietro Germi sees her in the newspaper and casts her for his The Railroad Man

signs a contract with producer Carlo Ponti

c. 58

feels abandoned and alone when Ponti and his wife, actress Sophia Loren, leave for Hollywood

63

her co-star in Il Fornaretto di Venzia, German Fred Williams, will remember her as a pretty hysterical partner. She always has her lover with her and chases him around a lot for her handbag.

67

marries Italian Raimondo Castelli, a producer with Minerva Films

May 67

is featured in Playboy

March 69

has a brawl with co-star Laurence Harvey while filming Kampf um Rom. The actor punches her in the jaw so hard that the shot has to be halted.

69

is back in Yugoslavia for the filming of The Battle of Neretva

Late 60s

escapes death when the caretaker at her Italian villa goes berserk and shoots three people to death while shes filming in South Africa

72

some scenes of her lovemaking to Gabriele Tinti in Lisa and the Devil have to be cut because they are considered pornographic